Tim Cole wrote: > On Fri, 2009-12-11 at 15:24 +0100, Stefan Bader wrote: >> The problem moved though. For the older kernels it was the tablets that >> were incorrectly detected as joysticks. But that patch of you went upstream >> and now it is the one joystick model that does not work. >> In our tree we reverted the patch in Jaunty, but with Karmic we have the other >> behavior. So in essence, someone is always complaining. :-P > > I know what you mean, but well -- ideally we want to converge on the > correct behavior. Otherwise we'll just keep spinning and things stay > broken. > > To my view, blacklisting a joystick which (wrongly) reports itself as a > digitizer tablet is an improvement over creating broken joystick devices > for anything that reports itself as a tablet. From that position we can > fix the problem with the single device reporting the wrong device type > and then everyone can be happy. As far as I understood, we do not yet know why the joystick gets assigned digitizer keys, as the HID debug information requested has not been provided. We do not know for sure what the joystick itself reports or whether it is wrong or not. -- Anssi Hannula -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-input" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
